Whoever hired Gross is out of touch with what is and is not appropriate on a college campus and perhaps should not be employed by a university.

Purdue University, where my daughter is a freshman, was terribly irresponsible for hiring the aptly-named alleged comedian Andy Gross to perform at the close of the Boiler Gold Rush on Saturday.

My daughter attended this event with friends, and subsequently left early with those very friends. She reported that the Gross routine was rife with offensive material including, but not limited to genitalia “jokes,” as well inappropriate remarks toward women. These are college freshman — some still as young as 17 years old.

Why would Purdue bring such deleterious material to campus, paid for by parents like me? Where was the vetting of this so-called “entertainer?” It took me all of a minute to find half a dozen videos of Gross performing his routine. Whoever hired Gross is out of touch with what is and is not appropriate on a college campus and perhaps should not be employed by a university.

Purdue University, heading into its 150 year anniversary, has a great tradition of excellence. My wife, an alumnus, and I, are proud to send our daughter there, and hope the next four years will see continued excellence.

Sanford D. Horn

Westfield

Immigrant children suffer under Trump policies

There are still almost 600 children who have not been reunited with a parent. President Donald Trump threw this awful policy together with no thought about what this would do to these little children and their parents. Now, he has washed his dirty hands of reuniting these 600 children. If you are a parent, you can imagine what long-term emotional repercussions this will have. Donald Trump has plenty of time to go golfing, and to tweet multiple times a day! Where is the outrage from Americans?

Judy Morriston

Greenwood

IPS denies educational opportunities for students

As I read through the Aug. 19 Letter to the Editor from IPS commissioners regarding the best use of Broad Ripple High School, I was exasperated. The authors cite a long list of delaying tactics and unsupported excuses for not expeditiously selling the high school to Purdue Polytechnic but failed to provide a single bona fide reason for not doing so.

The reasons for this foot-dragging are obvious. IPS does not want additional charter schools going in and succeeding where their public schools have failed. And of course every voucher taken to a charter school is revenue lost to IPS.

IPS is denying hundreds of students an opportunity for a better education in an attempt to maintain the status quo.